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It's a swivel Jim but not as we know it

We have finally made some headway with the new track on the new front boards.  The boards were designed many years ago and by chance the joint between two 6ft x 2ft boards lies directly under com...
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Bus wire/bus bar

A contionuous wire or copper strip under a baseboard, connected to the track at frequent intervals to ensure continuity of current supply.
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King Lever

A lever in a signalbox which cuts out the box's control and allows its signals and points to be controlled remotely from another box or automatically via track circuits.
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Home at last

After much deliberation between members we have been allocated a new space in the new clubhouse.  The original plan for layouts was one where the larger layouts used as few lights as possible so ...
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The team grows

Finding this web site after searching for his own company Roger has taken a shine to the Yeovil Town project and decided to get stuck in with Yeovil Town.  With a project this size there will alw...
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Smoking electronics and floods...

Well I refitted the accessory decoders to Yeovil Town yesterday one by one and the last one failed on one H&M motor (all the others worked). When I checked it out I found that we had a direct shor...
/blog/yeovil-town/900.htm

Here we grow again...

With work progressing well on structures for Yeovil town (our OO faithful fine-scale reproduction of Yeovil Town Station) efforts have been turned to the last scenic board which encompasses the last f...
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Gradient post

Small marker boards used to indicate the rate at which the track is inclined up or down.
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Yahoo!

Last night saw the track faults on Yeovil Town just about sorted (one minor stretch left).  We were then able to run a class 08 shunter up and down all the tracks. It's little milestones like th...
/blog/yeovil-town/717.htm

Buffer stop

Frame or fabrication placed at the end of a line to stop vehicles from running off the track.
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Four foot

A railway term used to describe the track, meaning the space in between the running rails, derived from the standard gauge of 4ft 8½ins. 
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Analog control

Conventional track voltage (NMRA Standard S-9) typically varying between zero and tweleve volts for speed control and polarity reversal for direction control.
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Isolation section

A section of track that can be isolated by means of a switch or similar device.
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sleeper

heavy wood, sometimes concrete, cross-member supporting track (U.S. tie).  Also passenger car with sleeping accommodation.
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Double slip

A track formation which permits trains to travel over a crossing in more than one direction; a complicated device.
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